Are you brave enough to try our Victorian mince pie recipe? Mrs Crocombe has been making traditional mincemeat in the kitchens at Audley End House and Gardens and it has one rather unusual ingredient... [ Eht.to Link ]

Set on a hilltop and exposed to the elements, Housesteads Roman Fort (Hadrian's Wall) often sees harsh winters. Luckily, Romans stationed here had a number of ways to ensure they kept warm, and we're well prepared for winter visitors too. If it's been raining heavily enough, you can even watch a Roman toilet flush!

Over 5,000 years ago, our ancestors built what would become one of the world's most iconic monuments. Stonehenge has many mysteries which we're still trying to uncover today. Discover what we know (and what we don't!) about this incredible place.

A new series of Digging for Britain airs tonight on BBC4, featuring an excavation held over the summer at Tintagel Castle. Findings include imported late-Roman amphorae and pottery from modern day Turkey, supporting the claim that Tintagel was a prosperous community with links to the Mediterranean world.

A major new exhibition is coming to Hadrian's Wall! Explore the story of the Roman army's horseback riders through a range of remarkable objects, including ornate helmets, armour and weapons on loan from museums from around the world.

We often say "if walls could talk" - but wallpaper can actually tell us more stories than we might imagine! We've explored the Archaeological Collections Store at Wrest Park to discover what we can learn about history through studying wallpaper.

I love you English Heritage !! How many times I have said that, specifically when I am in England Italy and France .my next trip is,to beautiful Scotland. Thank you for sharing. From Washington State USA.

Edith Cavell was born on this day in 1865. A heroine of the First World War, Cavell trained as a nurse at the London Hospital, where her blue plaque now stands. She saved countless lives from both sides during the conflict before being executed by German forces.

The vicar in our village Reverend Gahan gave her the last rites before she was shot. I have known about her all my life, he christened me and many of my friends. She had great strength and fortitude facing death at the hands of the enemy he stated in later years.

This year I had a great honour of dressing in traditional sisters uniform and laying a wreath at her memorial. It has been done every year for the last 80 years. Tradition states 2 Sisters lay the wreath. The Cavell Trust is an I,portent charity supporting nurses in their time of need.

I make mince pies with minced beef. To simplify things it is making the pie mix with the usual ingredients but a lot of brandy...and the minced beef. Pack it into storage jar ...in fridge for four weeks. Then use as normal . Sweet pastry if poss. But I just roll my shop bought out in icing sugar. Not quite as sweet as normal but gorgeous.

Many of our favourite Christmas traditions, from trees to turkeys, were made fashionable in the 19th century by Queen Victoria and Prince Albert. This winter, why not experience a Victorian Christmas for yourself at Osborne House?

Extremely disappointed having visited Osborne today. Not as many rooms open as usual, no "real atmosphere" by which I mean no Christmas music or Carol Singing. Decorations all fake and hardly in abundance. Very disappointed.

How often did the Romans use siege weapons during their invasion of Britain? One skull discovered at Maiden Castle shows the square piercing of a quadrangular ballista-bolt – a painful way to go. But does this mean there was a massive Roman massacre at the Iron Age hillfort?

We're recording a special festive edition of our podcast and we need your help! What have you always wanted to know about Christmas traditions? Let us know in the comments below and we might feature your question.

To work on one of these sites is just lovely - if you like people and historic buildings go for it!! Variety, fun - I mean, how many work places can you dress up at Halloween and fit in with the surroundings? The whole point is to get children interested in these sites and to stimulate them to look at history and the buildings and the fabric of our history.

Isn't it a lovely scene Mandy, and a marvellous view from a distance too! I remember when I ran the 'Cleveland Way' (some years back!) we were feeling pretty tired out chose that view to lift us. By the way, I remember that day as one of my mates wanted to keep running all the way up those bloody stairs! We didn't because we still had to carry on to Filey Brigg to finish... Thanks for this xxx

Jimi Hendrix was born on this day in 1942. His London home in Mayfair was coincidentally next door to where the 18th century composer Handel once lived. To a journalist he once quipped “I didn’t even know this was Handel’s pad. And, to tell you the God’s honest truth, I haven’t heard much of the fella’s stuff.”

Should English heritage just not concentrate on the heritage of ENGLISH people and not Americans ? especially one who a lot of people associated with hard drugs...just saying,thats all before any tirade of abuse from others

During the medieval period, poems and songs informed the public in the way a Hollywood movie ‘based on a true story’ can today. Just like a film, these accounts could be exaggerated and inaccurate – but they give us an insight into how medieval people saw their own past. We've explored three popular stories about the events of 1066:

Why say English then revert to the inaccurate "Saxon" part way through? More significant than Hereward was the turning out of the men of Devon and Somerset to repel a raid or invasion by the sons of Harold II after Hastings.